At a glance Expert’s Rating Pros Outstanding sequential benchmark performance Affordable for PCIe 5.0 Optional heatsink Cons Real-world sequential performance in our transfers is the same as PCIe 4.0 Pricier than PCIe 4.0 HMB SSDs…
At a glance Expert’s Rating Pros Very good everyday performance Affordable for Samsung Five-year warranty and good TBW rating Cons Slows on the 450GB write to 1.2GBps Pricier than some faster competition. Our Verdict Samsung’s…
If you’re running a PCIe Gen 5 solid-state drive, odds are pretty good that you care a lot about speed. After all, you paid a big premium to get one of the fastest SSDs available…
At a glance Expert’s Rating Pros Fastest ever writing our 450GB file Fan-cooled heatsink DRAM cache for fast random performance Cons Pricey Middling single-queue benchmark numbers for a DRAM design Our Verdict The Adata 970…
Although the Raspberry Pi 5 has a PCIe interface, it doesn’t have a slot for a PCIe SSD. There’s now a whole range of plug-in boards (HATs = Hardware Attached on Top) for retrofitting SSDs.…
At a glance Expert’s Rating Pros As fast as you’ll find Available in up to 4TB Optional heatsink/cooler Our Verdict The Corsair MP700 Pro SE came within a whisker of capturing the NVMe SSD performance…
Most enthusiasts know that a PC’s CPU will throttle down to prevent overheating. GPUs and even most PCIe 50. SSDs ship with huge heat sinks and blowers. But the latest casualty of thermal throttling might…
Are you ready for PCIe version 6.0? No? Your motherboard doesn’t even have PCIe 5.0 yet, because you’re squeezing every last possible ounce of value out of AM4? Well too bad, because PCie 7.0 is…
Solid state drives (SSDs) have had a bunch of upgrades since they first appeared back in 1991. The current latest generation, PCIe Gen 5 SSD, is the fastest iteration we’ve seen to date, promising blazingly…
Most computers and storage drives still use the common SATA or PCIe 3.0 interfaces to sling your bits of data around, but if you’re lucky enough to own a relatively modern PC, you might be…